The Lucasville Uprising was a rebellion against oppressive and racist policies at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, OH. Nine inmates and one guard died during the uprising in April of 1993. Today, many people are serving time or condemned to death by the state of Ohio in relation to the uprising. We demand amnesty for all of these inmates. The conditions at SOCF were (and still are) intolerable and unconscionable.

Please call to support Siddique Abdullah Hasan on hunger strike!

Demand that the punishments being
imposed on Jason Robb and Siddique Abdullah Hasan be reversed and that
OSP authorities be severely reprimanded for violating their rights to
due process and displaying bias toward them.

Prison Strike Leader Moved to Infirmary after Twenty Four Days Refusing Food.

Siddique
Abdullah Hasan, a national prisoner leader has been on hunger strike
since Monday, February 27th. On Friday, March 24th he was moved to the
infirmary, presumably due to failing health. His appeal to the Rules
Infraction Board (RIB) was also denied by Ohio Department of
Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) Director Gary Mohr.

The
administration at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) has been targeting and
restricting Hasan's communication access on any pretense they can find
or invent since his outspoken support for the nation-wide prisoner
strike on September 9th of 2016.
Hasan and another prisoner,
Jason Robb began refusing food when the OSP administration put them on a
90 day communication restriction for being interviewed by the Netflix
documentary series Captives. Hasan appealed the RIB's decision, arguing
that they violated policies regarding timelines, access to witnesses,
and prisoners' due process rights. Director Mohr's response to the
appeal was a form letter that did not address any of the issues Hasan
raised.

Hasan and Robb are on death row and have been held in
solitary confinement since the 1993 prison uprising in Lucasville. They
believe that the ODRC and the Ohio State prosecutors targeted them after
the uprising because of their role in negotiating a peaceful surrender.
State officials, in both the Captives documentary and a 2013
documentary called The Shadow of Lucasville, have admitted that some
prisoners were given deals to testify against Hasan, Robb and others,
and that no one really knows who committed the most serious crimes
during the uprising. In court, they argued the opposite to secure death
penalty convictions.

The Lucasville Uprising prisoners have been
fighting to tell their story for decades, and are currently suing the
ODRC for an unconstitutional media blockade, which the Captives
documentary crew circumvented by unofficially recording video visits
with Hasan and Robb. The current hunger strike is part of an ongoing
struggle for equal protection, basic human rights and survival after
decades of living under the most restrictive and torturous conditions of
confinement at OSP, Ohio's supermax prison.

Supporters are
asking people to please call Director Gary Mohr at 614-387-0588 or email
him at drc.publicinfo@odrc.state.oh.us as well as Northeast Regional
Director Todd Ishee, 330-797-6398. Demand that the punishments being
imposed on Jason Robb and Siddique Abdullah Hasan be reversed and that
OSP authorities be severely reprimanded for violating their rights to
due process and displaying bias toward them.

For more
information on the Lucasville Uprising, the struggles of these
prisoners, and the media blockade against them, please visit
LucasvilleAmnesty.org.